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Cowboys receive less than stellar ranking of 2025 rookie class https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/sallas-cowboys-receive-less-than-stellar-ranking-of-2025-rookie-class

The Extended Stellar Distribution in the Outskirts of the Ursa Minor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: #DwarfGalaxies Merge? New Clues from the Outer Stars of a Milky Way Satellite: https://subarutelescope.org/en/results/2026/01/13/3641.html

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column,
I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer:
exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.
These all deserve deeper dives,
but perhaps black holes deserve one most of all because, technically speaking,
they do provide the deepest dive you can physically take.
They also make very big bangs indeed, with their collisions rapidly releasing almost inco…

How much energy is released when supermassive black holes collide?
The collision of supermassive black holes shakes the entire cosmos, hard

The first radio view of a type Ibn supernova in SN 2023fyq - Understanding the mass-loss history in the last decade before the explosion: #Supernova Type, Revealing Secrets of Stellar Death: https://public.nrao.edu/news/astronomers-make-first-radio-detection-of-rare-supernova-type-revealing-secrets-of-stellar-death/

Drake Maye continues stellar second season in Monday night debut as Patriots roll https://www.nfl.com/news/drake-maye-continues-stellar-second-season-in-monday-night-debut-as-patriots-roll

Newly listed Chinese AI chipmakers Moore Threads, Biren, and MetaX had stellar stock market debuts, but none has sales above 10% of rival Cambricon (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f67a3a6a-d640-4b3f-bf06-dace3164d180

Pick Six: A stellar showing from the defense gives Raiders their best chance to end Broncos' nine-game winning streak https://www.raiders.com/news/pick-six-a-stellar-showing-from-the-defense-gives-…

I’m neck deep into figure skating at the moment and recommend you watch this 2016 recording of Javier Fernandez to get a feeling of what’s cool about it. That is such a stellar performance!
https://youtu.be/uk7I7Pe1xkc

Attridge. Berger. Streets. Hare. These are just some of the "big name" professors teaching YDS Summer Study courses this June!
Use link below to learn about the fascinating courses and stellar faculty and how you can enroll.
Summer Study running online June 1-5, open to all.
https://summerstudy.yale.edu

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Incubus:
🎵 Stellar
#Incubus
https://psymbionic.bandcamp.com/track/incubus-stellar-psymbionic-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ISuXA3UCPMtsyEUGUTAyn

Just to be clear:
This is not just because somebody at Hilton Corporate has a stellar conscience. I mean, somebody there very well might — but that is not the reason for this. Corporations are by and large amoral actors even when the individuals within them are not.
This is surely because of activists banging pots and pans and drum kits outside the Hilton where ICE agents in MSP were staying, making the hotel a nightmare for everyone staying there and thus losing Hilton business.
Keep it up, activists!

Appfigures: Sora's app downloads dropped 32% month-over-month in December and 45% in January to 1.2M; consumer spending on the app fell 32% MoM as of January (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/openais-sora-app-is-struggli…

OpenAI's Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch | TechCrunch
New data suggests the app is seeing declines in both app downloads and consumer spending, as the early hype about the AI video social network wears off.

Pick Six: A stellar showing from the defense gives Raiders their best chance to end Broncos' nine-game winning streak https://www.raiders.com/news/pick-six-a-stellar-showing-from-the-defense-gives-…

Bijan Robinson soars to 93-yard TD in stellar showing vs. Rams: I was like, 'I've got to take off' https://www.nfl.com/news/bijan-robinson-soars-to-93-yard-td-in-stellar-showing-vs-rams-i-was-like-i-ve-got-to-take-o…

CANUCS/Technicolor Data Release - Imaging, Photometry, Slit Spectroscopy, and Stellar Population Parameters: #GalaxyCluster in Technicolor: https://aasnova.org/2026/01/12/featured-image-galaxy-cluster-in-technicolor/

BMW’s R&D teams have been busy “innovating.” Unfortunately, they aren’t focusing on the things that actually matter—like stellar engine performance or legendary driving dynamics.
Instead, the C-suite execs decided that the best use of their engineering budget was to design a proprietary security screw specifically intended to prevent BMW drivers from fixing their own cars.
At first glance, it’s almost cute:
a screw head shaped exactly like the BMW logo.
But the …

BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair
BMW filed a patent for a proprietary screw that looks like the BMW logo. They say it looks cool, we’re worried it’s going to stifle repairs.

Bobby Hutcherson - "Total Eclipse" (1969)
Goofy looking cover for a stellar recording. Features #HaroldLand #ChickCorea #ReggieJohnson

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Danny L Harle, Rachika Nayar & Caroline Polachek:
🎵 Stellar Parallax
#DannyLHarle #RachikaNayar #CarolinePolachek
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://dannylharle.bandcamp.com/track/stellar-parallax

Up at 4:15 this morning to drive 1hr to Belfast International to drop daughter off for Easyjet flight back to uni.
5 mins into homeward trip, I get a call from distraught daughter saying all flights are cancelled due to de-icing failure, and all later flights are booked up till Wednesday, when we get to do the whole thing again.
Stellar work there Belfast International.

Location, location, location! Something that also holds true in #StarTrek. So let's see how good your stellar cartography is for today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will r…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#OperaOn3
- Alban Berg's Wozzeck
Simon Rattle conducts Alban Berg’s Wozzeck, featuring a stellar cast headed by Christian Gerhaher as Wozzek and Malin Byström as Marie with HK Gruber as the Speaker.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mc14

Giants' Robinson, Eluemunor and Flott set for big pay days https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47246420/new-york-giants-wandale-robinson-jermaine-eluemunor-set-big-pay-days

Stellar performance by former 1st rounder, one-off or Cowboys success? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/21/cowboys-tyler-guyton-evaluation-projection-week-12/87378503007/

Registration now open for YDS Summer Study 2026! Use link below to learn about the fascinating courses and stellar faculty and how you can enroll.
Summer Study running online June 1-5, open to all.
https://summerstudy.yale.edu/

The fourth #AAS247 press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZmP4fC07-Q about The Milky Way and Stellar Explosions covered the paper Resolving the Fe K-alpha Doublet of the Galactic Center Molecular Cloud G0.11-0.11 with XRISM (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02482), 25 years of observing the Kepler supernova remnant with Chandra (https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/kepler/ and https://chandra.si.edu/press/26_releases/press_010626.html and https://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/supernova-remnant-video-from-nasas-chandra-is-decades-in-making/) and the paper Where do stars explode in the ISM? -- The distribution of dense gas around evolved massive stars in M33 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17694 with https://public.nrao.edu/news/stars-that-die-off-the-beaten-path/).

JWST/NIRCam View of the Resolved Stellar Populations of the Interacting #DwarfGalaxies NGC 4485 and NGC 4490: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adfccc -> A dance of dwarf galaxies: https://esawebb.org/images/potm2511a/

X-ray astronomers often look at
X-ray binaries,
which consist of a black hole or a neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a normal star.
Material from that star is accreted onto the black hole or neutron star, producing X-rays.
The companion star is quite often a massive star with very strong stellar winds, and X-ray astronomers looking at these winds tend to think:
“Oh my god, it’s so complicated: there’s all this additional absorption, it’s super annoyi…

Victoria Grinberg: the astrophysicist sharing her love for science – Physics World
X-ray astronomer Victoria Grinberg talks about spreading her passion for science

Rams QB Matthew Stafford, Browns DE Myles Garrett highlight November Players of the Month https://www.nfl.com/news/players-of-the-month-november-2025-matthew-stafford-myles-garrett

Assembling GW231123 in Star Clusters through the Combination of Stellar Binary Evolution and Hierarchical Mergers: #BlackHole mergers: https://www.gssi.it/communication/news-events/item/26044-gssi-astrophysicists-reveal-the-role-of-star-clusters-in-black-hole-mergers

Carbonaceous Cosmic Dust Analogs Distinguish between Ion Bombardment and Temperature: #CosmicDust in her lab. What she found could help us understand how life started on Earth: https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2026/02/02/cosmic-dust-carbonaceous-analogue-infrared.html - study reverse-engineers stellar chemical cocktail of fundamental molecules using infrared 'fingerprints'.

Mike Vrabel's 'arts and crafts' game ball perfect prize for Patriots star QB Drake Maye https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-vrabel-s-arts-and-crafts-game-ball-perfect-prize-for-patriots-star-qb-drake-maye

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ThePeoplesParty with #AFRODEUTSCHE
CN:
🎵 Stellar Awakening
#CN
https://shop.cpurecords.net/track/cn-stellar-awakening
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AqjE1cZwWIQWzVtnVtPNs

Panthers-49ers on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from San Francisco's 20-9 win https://www.nfl.com/news/panthers-49ers-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-san-francisco-s-20-9-win

ASASSN-24fw - Candidate Gas-rich #Circumsecondary Disk Occultation of a Main-sequence Star: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae1fd9 -> Massive Cloud With Metallic Winds Discovered Orbiting Mystery Object: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2602/ - astronomers using the Gemini South telescope achieve unprecedented detection of vaporized metals within a dusty, gaseous cloud during rare stellar occultation.